“Clapped-out courtiers, posh lowlifes and fleabag turncoats:” a “royal watcher” assesses her peers.
Kept in the dark
It is clear that notwithstanding assurances that constitutional change is not a high priority issue, there has been considerable planning to push through constitutional change in...
Shock London Announcement: republic referendum in 2010
It has been announced - in London - that another referendum to turn Australian into a republic is to be held within three years, probably in...
Destabalisation in Canberra
The Federal government has just emerged from its biggest crisis since it came to office in 1996. It seems that the Prime Minister had commissioned the...
Mugabe model superseded
During the Corowa Republican Conference in 2001, a Zimbabwean-born academic, Dr. Bede Harris, said he wanted Australia to become a republic. This was because he wanted his infant daughter to have the chance of becoming...
Secret monarchists
It was during the 1998 Constitutional Convention that I first concluded that the charming and amusing doyen of the Australian press, Frank Devine, is actually a...
Reinventing history
Until Prime Minister Paul Keating put republicanism on to the serious political agenda, it would have remained where it belongs –in endless chatter in the salons...
Prince Charles and Education
“ There is a need to revisit the fundamental principles that drive our educational beliefs; to re-inspire teachers; to question the notion that equality and accessibility are best served by reducing the range and...
Televising the Memorial Service
The Memorial Service for Diana, Princes of Wales at the Guards’ Chapel in London on 31 August, 2007, dominated the TV news in The Commonwealth and...
“Well may we say, God save Clive James!”
Our colleague, Harold Schmautz, who coordinates the work of the Melbourne based Monarchist Alliance, and sends out the most informative pieces of information, has drawn our attention to the blog Sentire cum ecclesia,...
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